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Shutdown, SIS and safety systems
News Release from: Hima-Sella
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 January 2008
Upgrade for major Norwegian gas
treatment plant
Hima-Sella has been awarded a GBP6m contract to renew some of the major safety equipment at the Karsto gas plant in southern Norway
The contract has been awarded by StatoilHydro, on behalf of the operator, Gassco StatoilHydro is assisted by MW Kellogg as the EPCA contractor on the project, as it has been on three previous expansions at this facility
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 2 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This work follows on from a GBP1m contract successfully completed in 2004.
Major work should be finished in 2010 with the project scheduled for completion in 2012.
Located 60km north of Stavanger, the Karsto plant serves thirty major gas fields and processes more than 30% of all gas exported from Norway into Europe.
The plant has a major significance to the Norwegian economy, which means that the technical services provider, Statoil, requires that only the most reliable and cost effective systems can be used.
Hima-Sella will be upgrading systems originally installed by HIMA 20 years ago.
The work will be in three areas - ESD (emergency shut down systems), HIPPS (high integrity pressure protection systems) and CAP (critical action panel - replacing the 20-year-old 'Planar F' system with the state-of-the-art HIMA HiQuad h51q programmable electronic system.
Chris Williams, lead engineer at Hima-Sella explained, "These new systems will incorporate the Statoil technical requirements and the latest design standards to make the new systems more efficient and more cost effective - as well as improving the system testing on the running plant.
Separating the Process Control and Data Acquisition (PCDA) system from the rest of the control measures will give greater flexibility and enhance the already enviable safety record achieved at this installation".
The replacement of these systems is part of the NOK6.5 billion (GBP580 billion - euro394 billion) KEP2010 upgrade of the Statpipe/Sleipner area of the plant - the third largest in the world - designed to make it more robust for safe and efficient operations for many years to come.
Work at the site starts in 2008.
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